Posts by acb@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B5kX3hWFtRfX0N3NVA by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel what will one need to play it? Would I be able to play it on my Steam Deck?
(DIR) Post #B6EZjQhaq0m5f1BDnM by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel you could always do what Aphex Twin apparently once did in a fashionable New York club: play a sheet of sandpaper on their turntables
(DIR) Post #B6L26EW2HAiWBsCBTk by acb@mastodon.social
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Happy #Caturday!#Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
(DIR) Post #B6ZZQj0ubzqPGpSJTU by acb@mastodon.social
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Happy #Caturday!#Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
(DIR) Post #B6dfoNz9p4djMM8ksK by acb@mastodon.social
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@neauoire Aren’t these the ones that shipped in an early version of MS Windows (3.0, I think) before they had TrueType ready?
(DIR) Post #B6t0QUigcl574F2CDA by acb@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org How one squares one’s appreciation of problematic artist’s works with their actions is between them and their conscience. After the artist is dead and the works in the public domain, it becomes much less of an issue: here, knowing and keeping alive the fact that he was a POS to his wife in reading them would IMHO suffice.(See also: Lovecraft, whose conceptualisation of horror has essentially become a talking point about the nature of xenophobia.)
(DIR) Post #B6t2IkoF7SOSYn4Paq by acb@mastodon.social
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@gutenberg_org The cadaver synod school of literary criticism
(DIR) Post #B6uBd0ORyuihQjhI7E by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel Do you have a Steam Deck on hand to test it on?
(DIR) Post #B7KJC06poUVwhNr6ES by acb@mastodon.social
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@Gargron I have one as well. Not sure if it even connects to the App Store, or is just a web browser plus whatever is already on it.Hopefully someone will crack the bootloader keys and allow the hardware to be reused with replacement OSes (or even bare-metal appliance firmware)
(DIR) Post #B7WI7H9nq0DKybpE4O by acb@mastodon.social
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Happy #Caturday / Glad Midsommar!#Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
(DIR) Post #B7v0rWu7yZbooKBptw by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel Given that they allegedly laid off almost all their engineers, I thought they were in the process of transitioning Bandcamp from a viable concern to a butchered carcass, presumably more valuable as a repository of AI training data or something than a music retailer
(DIR) Post #B7yRaknIV0c97Evv6m by acb@mastodon.social
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@cos @lardmotel The idea that listening to Black Sabbath or Fleetwood Mac or something is “more authentic” on vinyl (found in one’s parents’ record collection or bought at a flea market) than CD or Spotify or whatever seems to have mutated into the idea that listening to anything (Nirvana, Autechre, breakcore mashups made on a Windows 98 PC and originally burned to CD-R) on vinyl is inherently more authentic because, unlike CDs and MP3s, vinyl records have souls.
(DIR) Post #B8BaUGZjMdUSIa328W by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel Is this a cherished piece of merch belonging to some old goth/raver/graver/whatever they’re called, or a pallet of deadstock soon to appear in the Severed Heads web shop?
(DIR) Post #B8D55wNC7CvSQi1aYy by acb@mastodon.social
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Happy #Caturday!#Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
(DIR) Post #B8LufLJrhLXQ8AW6Pw by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel I have a Steam Deck, which, despite being a dedicated gaming device, i’m guessing is more “office PC” than “gaming PC”
(DIR) Post #B8oyrSudI6BOMXVNqq by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel If something has an iLok, that’s an immediate “yeah, nah” from me. My brother in Christ, do you really think your saturator/multitap delay/Juno clone is the only game in town?
(DIR) Post #B8p45Vk04SOkxa356m by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel The only iLoked plugin I ever bought was 32 Lives, an adapter for running 32-bit macOS plugins on a 64-bit system (which I got because a few companies refused to update their old synths, which I had projects depending on). Impressively done, from a small Israeli firm whose engineers may well be ex-Mossad hacker ninjas. Alas, Apple killed this when they eliminated 32-bit APIs altogether.
(DIR) Post #B9SNiXdtN9redb1lku by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel looks like a lost Australian Akihabara. I recall shops like Jaycar also being better and having more weird/exotic fare and less tat. I imagine these days one has to go to Shenzhen or somewhere for this sort of thing.
(DIR) Post #B9kxeE8Eg8IKNK9sXI by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel What’s your take on Native Instruments’ FM8?
(DIR) Post #B9tVEX5CuE0URzWdMW by acb@mastodon.social
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@lardmotel Claude is in the contributors: this is a vibe-coded faerie-gift, which may or may not work, and will end up abandoned once the mess of Claude-generated code-maché becomes unmaintainable